When she lived in the Alley, her Negro servant lighted the lamps at dust, using a candele on the end of a long pole.
The city is located at the meeting of two rivers, an amazing natural phenomenon where the dark waters of Rio Negro meet the light-brown waters of Solimões, which then run side by side without mixing for more than 6km.
"Some Negroes who are really light skinned and have straight hair try it".
The internalization of this "field Negro/house Negro" mentality and valorization of light skin tones continues to systematically affect the lives of African Americans and greater society in both overt and covert ways.
Henry, who is described as "a very handsome negro", "known to be a light, a weight, and an eminence in the suburb of the town", is friendly toward Jimmie.
And Harry Reid said he won "because he's a light-skinned Brown, with no Negro accent".
Black all over my body, Max Factor 2880, then a lighter brown, then Negro Number 2 [the name of a shade of make-up], a stronger brown.
He suggests that Negro Point be called Scylla Point, in light of Charybdis Playground in Astoria Park on the opposite side of Hell Gate.
In New Orleans, "downtown" used to constitute a dividing line between the French & the American settlements, and many of the Negroes who live there are Catholic and light skinned.
There was, to begin with, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, who helpfully publicized the book when he apologized after being quoted in its pages as saying that Barack Obama was "light-skinned" and had "no Negro dialect".
WASHINGTON — Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, apologized on Saturday for once predicting that Barack Obama could become the country's first black president because he was "light-skinned" and had "no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one".
